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Jeremiah 4:18

Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.

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In The King James Version

Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.

In Context

17Like keepers of a field they are against her on every side; because she has been fighting against me, says the Lord.

19My soul, my soul! I am pained to my inmost heart; my heart is troubled in me; I am not able to be quiet, because the sound of the horn, the note of war, has come to my ears.

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Cross References

Psalms 107:17Foolish men, because of their sins, and because of their wrongdoing, are troubled;

Proverbs 5:22The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.

Jeremiah 2:17Has not this come on you because you have given up the Lord your God, who was your guide by the way?

Jeremiah 5:19And it will come about, when you say, Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us? that you will say to them, As you gave me up, making yourselves servants to strange gods in your land, so will you be servants to strange men in a land which is not yours.

Jeremiah 14:16And the people to whom they are prophets will be pushed out dead into the streets of Jerusalem, because there is no food, and because of the sword; and they will have no one to put their bodies into the earth, them or their wives or their sons or their daughters: for I will let loose their evil-doing on them.

Lamentations 3:15He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 4:6-19

Punishment Predicted. ( b. c. 620.) 5 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities. 6 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction. 7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste,… Read the whole commentary →

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